- Josie Mansfield: [Referring to Mlle. Fleurique's dress] But these are her clothes. It's stealing.
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: Only little people call it stealing. Big people call it borrowing.
- Josie Mansfield: Besides, if you want something real bad, you gotta take some hard knocks to get it.
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: Say, you've learned a lot for a young lady. What are you after... reaching for the moon?
- Josie Mansfield: No, just one little star on a dressing room door.
- Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: [Yelling at Fisk and Boyd in the disappearing Jersey Ferry] You scoudrels! I'll run you down if I have to crawl in every rotten hole in Jersey1
- Josie Mansfield: [after receiving an expensive necklace from him] Mr. Fisk, what do you expect me to be?
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: [Pausing and dropping his eyes] Whatever you want to be.
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: [Preparing to enter a festive room] Are you ready?
- Josie Mansfield: I'm frightened to death.
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: You're in the circle now. You've got the prettiest feathers in the room. Now spread 'em.
- Nick Boyd: How do you spell Vanderbilt?
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: With a "V" and...
- [pausing to think]
- James 'Jim' Fisk Jr.: a lot of dollar marks.